This has turned into an archive of the issues that concern me as a residential boater and campaigner.
I hope others enjoy and find some if not all of what I say here informative.
Much of what I used to write about here was about British Waterways - no apologies.
Since July 2012 British Waterways' functions largely transferred to the Canal and River Trust. Will this make things better?

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

CRT have confirmed that they don't keep a list of complaint outcomes, (I assume a practise inherited from BW). Following a recent FOI response to the question: 'May I ask what percentage of formal complaints made to Canal Trust are upheld on investigation by yourselves?', we are told:

"... We have considered your request and I am writing to let you know that we
do not hold this information. At the first and second levels of our
complaints procedure (where we consider complaints, as opposed to the
Waterways Ombudsman) we try to resolve complaints rather than judge
whether we 'uphold' a complaint; as such we do not record the outcome of
a complaint only that it is made."

Hardly surprising then that problems re-occur. From my various rantings in these pages I could have told you that. The repetition and re-occurrence of problems previously reported and
even formally complained about, has long convinced me that there is a 'lack of corporate memory' in
CRT. Their response to this FOI confirms it.

This state of affairs of course makes a mockery of the complaints process as a whole and undermines any claims that CRT cares for its paying customers and the wider community.